to see everyone this evening.
If we would turn to this page right here
that we passed out, how beautiful heaven must be.
For our first hymn, we're going to sing
how beautiful heaven must be.
That's good, that's good.
That's fine.
to Springcrest Baptist Church, everyone.
Good to see you.
You made it here.
It's a Sunday evening service for 30 p.m.
Next service will be Wednesdays,
a Wednesday night at 5.30 p.m.
And then Sunday morning starts at 10.30.
And so in our bulletin there,
we have a soul winning time at 2 p.m. on Sunday.
So today we went out.
What was a count on today? I know we have one over here anybody else have any salvations, okay?
So thank you for going out soul winning and we really appreciate that we got at least one salvation today
And God bless that person.
And hopefully we see them get plugged into church
and start doing the good works, not to be saved,
but just to get God's blessings in this life.
And we'll see them in heaven.
So thank you guys for doing soul winning.
That's the most important work that we can do.
And we have our memory verse there
and our total salvations for the year.
We're approaching 200 salvations for the year.
That is awesome.
I just just keep it up. I mean, who knows what's going to happen to the end of the year and I'm
looking forward to hearing about all the salvations that happen with this church next year. And so
we have our birthdays and anniversaries. We've got pastor Cobb, 50 years being married and just
within the church, but things that are coming up with people that we are friends with is
Steadfast Baptist Church in Dallas, Fort Worth.
They are holding the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship next week that it starts, it starts
pastor's preaching that you don't want to miss. It's going to be great, great preaching. It's going
to be a lot of good fellowship. And, you know, what a nice thing for pastor to do to host this for
all of us where we can come together and just fellowship and just learn more Bible and maybe
routine that we have and spend our vacation time on something that's that's
godly and so thank you pastor Shelley for that and then we have
Mexico's soul-winning event. And I know Pastor Reyes wanted to go to both of these events. And
of course, we're waiting on him to get back after surgery. And please pray for him that he heals
quickly. But he was really excited about this. And I can see why it's a soul-winning event in Mexico
City. And that's September 8th through 12th. Now, Steadfast Baptist Church, Brother Diego, is hosting
He's setting it all up. This is his baby. And if you can make it to this.
you know, let me know after the service. I'll get you his information. And he would love to have you come out and help support. And if you can't make it, then just pray for everybody that goes over there, that, you know, things go smooth. And when they don't go smooth, it gets fixed quickly. And God just helps them out. And that a lot of people get saved over there. And, and so hopefully it goes very well. And they have many, many more trips. And so that's what's going on around us.
one more event I don't have the dates on the Bahamas I'm putting you on the spot
it's October all right it's in October early October okay I apologize
Pastor Shelley I don't have that off the tip of my tongue but
He's going to take everybody to the Bahamas. He's inviting them to Bahamas and so they're going to do soul winning in
schools and
University and on the beach or whatever and this thing I went to the one a couple of years ago
And it was great and so this is how awesome these soul winning events are is if you haven't been on a foreign missions trip
Figure out how to go it'll change your life. And so he we just were soul-winning all week long
just a ton of people got saved and
Like 980 I think for the whole trip and on a Friday
He had a little bit of off-day where we he rented some jet skis and we could go have some fun on the beach
And if you weren't into that you just
do some soul-winning on the beach.
I went with a guy.
He got a couple people saved.
It was awesome.
And so Pastor Shelly is there.
And there's an attendant for the jet ski stuff.
And he's just standing there.
And Pastor Shelly gives him the gospel and he gets saved.
And the beach is right there.
So then he gets baptized right there on the beach.
And it was awesome.
And those are the stories that I love.
And Liberty Baptist Church over there in Nassau.
God blessed that church and we had a great time with them and so another guy had gotten
somebody saved, soul winning a day or two prior and he was actually on the beach with
us and he saw him and he was like, hey!
Come you got to get baptized and he got baptized right there and just the the ocean water
I thought it was great
So these are the cool stories that you can have if you go on these trips and if you can't make it I understand
I understand it's just something maybe to work towards and so these
These missions trips there are a lot of fun and you get people saved. What could be more fun than that?
it's like watching a baby be born right when somebody gets saved you just like no they're
born into the kingdom of god you're gonna you're gonna see them forever and so um
i just encourage you to go to those things on the back we have our prayer requests if you need
to add something to this please get a hold of pastor reyes we'll get it added to the bulletin
and be in prayer for all of these people and the last thing is we do have a mother's baby room
for for mom and kids to be able to hear the sermon and you know sometimes the kids can
get a little unruly in the sanctuary but we don't want you guys to miss anything so that is there
for you please take advantage of it but it's for mothers and babies not you know larger kids or
anybody else and and be respectful keep it quiet so the mothers can hear the tv and so
Last two songs. I apologize. I'm not used to the word.
All right, turn in your hymnals to song 122.
Song 122 in our hymnals. I'll hail the power of Jesus' name.
Okay, well, we'll just start there in song 122 all hail the power of Jesus name
other send song handout is when the battle is over
when the battle is over
You want to just start it? All right, let's just start singing.
to Mark chapter number one for Bible reading.
Mark chapter number one.
Mark chapter one, the Bible reads,
the beginning of the
gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in the prophets,
Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Which shall prepare thy way before thee.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
Make his paths straight. John did baptize in the wilderness,
And preached the baptism of repentance For the remission of sins.
and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
And John was clothed with camel's hair and with a girdle of skin about his loins,
and he did eat locusts and wild honey, and preached, saying,
There cometh one mightier than I, after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop
baptized you with water, but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost." And it came to pass in
those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized of John in Jordan.
And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened and the Spirit like a dove
my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.
And immediately the spirit drive with him
into the wilderness.
And he was there in the wilderness 40 days,
tempted of Satan, and was with the wild beasts
and the angels ministered unto him.
Now...
that John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God and
saying, the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent ye and believe the gospel.
Now, as he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, his brother, casting
a net into the sea, for they were fishers.
And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
And straightway they forsook their nets and followed him.
And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his
who also were in the ship, mending their nets, and straightway he called them, and they left
their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants and went after him, and they went into
Capernaum, and straightway on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught.
they were astonished at his doctrine, for he taught them as one that had
authority and not as the scribes. And there was in their synagogue a man with
an unclean spirit, and he cried out saying, Let us alone, what have we to do
with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who
thou art, the Holy One of God.
And Jesus rebuked him, saying,
Hold thy peace and come out of him.
And when the unclean spirit had torn him
and cried with a loud voice,
he came out of him.
And they were all amazed in so much
that they questioned among themselves,
saying, What thing is this?
What new doctrine is this?
For with authority commanded he even the unclean spirits
and they do obey him.
and immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue,
they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John.
But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up and immediately the fever left her,
and she ministered unto them.
And that even when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased and
them that were possessed with devils.
And all the city was gathered together at the door.
and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day,
he went out and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
And Simon and they that were with him followed after him.
And when they had found him, they said unto him,
All men seek for thee. And he said unto them,
Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also,
And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee and cast out devils.
And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him,
If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
And Jesus moved with compassion, put forth his hand and touched him, and saith unto him,
I will be thou clean.
And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was
cleansed.
And he straightway, straightly charged him, and forthwith sent him away.
And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man, but go thy way.
show thyself to the priest and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded
for a testimony unto them. But he went out and began to publish it much and to blaze abroad the matter.
in so much that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city,
but was without in desert places.
And they came to him from every quarter.
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.
Dear Father, thank you for this church
and thank you for the word of God that you've given to us.
I pray at this time that you just fill brother James
with your spirit and help him to preach
with boldness and accuracy.
the message that you've laid on his heart, Lord,
and I pray also that we would have a 10 of years
to receive the message as well.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Amen.
Thank you for reading.
And thank you again, Pastor Cobb,
for allowing me to preach here
at Springcrest Baptist Church.
It's an honor, thank you so much.
And also thank you, Pastor Reyes, I wish you were here.
I know you wish you were here too.
and hopefully we get you back soon.
But here in Mark chapter one,
I wanted to look at verse 15.
It says, and saying the time is fulfilled
and the kingdom of God is at hand,
repent ye and believe the gospel.
So the title of my sermon tonight is Damnedible Heresy.
repent of your sins to be saved.
And so that repent of your sins to be saved,
that's the dandable heresy.
And so what makes it dandable is that
a doctrine that teaches people the wrong way on how to go to heaven they're going to be damned to
hell if they believe that false doctrine and so this is one of those false doctrines that is out
there in this world and it is repent of your sins to be saved so it it's it's very prevalent
everywhere and you know talking about the Bahamas earlier we ran into that a lot a couple years ago
it's they said oh you have to repent of your sins you have to repent of your sins we run into it in
the Philippines every once in a while um but this doctrine is being taught everywhere and it's one
of those damnable heresies one of those doctrines that will take you to hell if you believe it and
I know we don't have that problem here I mean I I would say that everybody in this room is saved
But I do want to show us this because you may find this out soul winning and maybe something that I teach tonight can help you on how to just
Help somebody that's actually genuine in their heart that wants to know the truth, but it's kind of confused on this
how to
reconcile some of these verses that these false prophets will use to
Vex and confuse these people that actually want to get saved and would if they had a preacher preaching the right thing and so
So this damnable heresy of repent of your sins to be saved, I first want to just go
ahead and let's just define what repent means.
And so I want you guys to head over to Exodus 32 verse 12.
And so this gives us a little bit of an idea of a definition of a repent according to the Bible.
Because this is one of the ways that these false prophets do this is they just, they change the definitions of things in the Bible.
And so they do that to prop up their false doctrine, because it's not true, and there's a bunch of other verses that prove that it's not true.
So they say, oh, well, look, here it is in the Bible, so that people believe this.
So let's just take a look at what repent is.
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, for mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the mountains and consume them from the face of the earth?
evil against thy people. And so what we're talking about here is repenting of the evil.
Okay, repent just means to turn or turn from or change your mind. And so
Up in verse 11 it says and Moses besought the Lord his God and said Lord
Why death thy wrath wax hot against thy people which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and
With a mighty hand so he's like why are you so mad God you brought all these people out
by a miracle with your mighty hand. Why are you so mad?
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, for mischief did he bring them out
to slay them in the mountains and consume them from the face of the earth?
Turn from thy fierce wrath and repent of this evil
against thy people." And so, you know, Moses is just talking to God and saying,
hey, don't don't kill all of us. Okay, I know we messed up.
that you want to do to us, the wrath that you have for us,
and don't do that. Turn from that wrath,
change your mind about that. That's what repent means in the Bible.
Now, there's a couple of definitions. Repent of your sins is in the Bible,
but that phrase is not found in the Bible. The concept is there,
but we'll get to that. But to repent is to turn from something,
to change your mind. Moses is pleading, saying,
okay and so they'll take this repent in the bible and they'll just say uh well see here it says
repent and they just automatically insert that it's repent of your sins but that's not
that's not you have to take a look at the context of repent and so
I want you guys to turn to Exodus 13, 17.
So every time the word repent is found in the Bible,
it does not mean repent of your sins.
It means to change your mind or to turn from something.
And here's a great example in Exodus 13, verse 17,
it can't mean repent of your sins.
And so,
The verse says,
And it came to pass when Pharaoh had led the people, let the people go that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines.
Although that was near, for God said, lest per adventure the people repent when they see war and they return to Egypt.
So God is not saying, lest per adventure the people repent of their sins.
lest they stop drinking, lest they clean up their life,
he's not saying that here.
Repent just means he doesn't want them to turn away
from where he's leading them and go back to Egypt.
He wants them to keep going in the course that they want.
So in here, in this verse,
repent is actually a bad thing.
If they repented, it's not God's will.
He wanted them to keep going to the promised land.
And so, we'll read it again.
And it came to pass when Pharaoh had let the people go,
that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines.
You know, at this point, the children of Israel, they weren't equipped.
They weren't ready for war.
God had to slowly get them ready for war.
Just because when they left Egypt, they were great in numbers.
but they were not battle ready yet,
so he didn't want them to run into the Philistines
that are battle ready and say,
I don't want anything to do with this.
I'm going back to Egypt.
I'm gonna repent and go back.
So that's what repent means.
It means to turn from.
It means to change your mind about something.
And here is a great passage to show that
it's actually not the will of God here to repent.
He doesn't want them to repent. And so it's a bad thing in this verse. So it can't mean,
like every time you see repent in the Bible, it can't mean repent of your sins.
It just, that's something these people have twisted and made a false doctrine to prop up
their damnable heresy. So, you know, what's the damnable heresy? It's repenting of your sins
to be saved. It's a lie. And so turn to Jonah 3.9.
And we get an example here of God changing his mind, God repenting.
And so I'm pretty sure we'll just take a look at it.
Jonah chapter 3 verse 9.
Who can tell if God will turn and repent?
So is God repenting of sin?
No, God has no sin.
So what does repent mean?
Well, it describes it.
If God will turn, that means not destroy Nineveh.
Who can tell if God will turn and repent and here's more definition and
Turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not and in verse 10 and
God saw their works that they
Turned from their evil way they repented
And God repented of the evil that he said that he would do under them.
So, you know, when God repents here, he's turning from his wrath
and not doing the evil thing that he said he would, he changed his mind about it.
And so, repent does not mean repent of your sins.
You know, it means a turning or changing of your mind.
and we see that again, you know, we don't have to repent
or I'm sorry, we do have to repent to be saved,
but we don't have to repent of our sins to be saved.
And that's what I'm trying to show you is repent
is turning from or changing your mind
and that is what repent means.
So let's go back over to Mark 115, Mark 115.
Mark 1.15, and saying the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand, repent ye and believe the gospel.
So we know that repent means to change our mind or to turn from something.
So God is telling us here how to be saved, how to get into the kingdom of heaven.
We do have to repent to get into heaven.
But look at the definition, how that works here in this verse.
It says, repent ye and believe the gospel.
So if the definition of repent is,
I have to change my mind about something,
I have to turn from something,
then how does that fit into this?
It is, I have to change my mind
about what it takes to go to heaven
and stop believing the wrong thing,
I get myself to heaven by my good works. That's the wrong thing.
I have to repent of that wrong thing and I have to believe the right thing.
So it says here,
repent and believe the gospel.
The gospel is the death burial resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And it's only our trust in that that saves us not.
ourselves by being good, doing good, and following the commandments. So to repent and believe the
gospel means to change our mind about believing the wrong thing about how to go to heaven and
believe the right thing, the gospel. And so that's what it means to repent unto salvation. That's what
believe the right thing and to believe the right thing means if God has asked
me to change my mind about something and believe the right thing it just means
that I'm believing the wrong thing right now. I'm thinking I'm going to heaven
because I'm a good person because I go to church because I try to follow the
commandments the best that I can.
and God is happy with those things.
But those are the wrong things on how to get to heaven.
So I believe the wrong thing,
I have to turn from that bad belief
and I have to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And so...
I want you guys to turn to Acts 16, 30, and 31.
You guys that are soul winners, you know this.
This is like the most foundational verse
that we use out there soul winning.
And again, this is how you go to heaven.
This is how you get saved.
And this is repenting and believing the gospel.
And it says right here.
and brought them out and said,
sirs, what must I do to be saved?
So the Bible is asking the question.
It's only one time in the Bible.
It's right here.
What do I have to do to go to heaven?
It says, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved.
So I stopped believing the wrong thing
and I believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
that is repenting unto salvation
and thou shalt be saved.
To believe on the Lord Jesus Christ that means just to put our trust in him to put our faith in him
That's what it means to believe on Jesus. So if I said I believe on you
I'm just saying I put my faith in you. I put my trust in you and that's all that it takes
It's not about any kind of works or any kind of effort on my part. It's only believing so
a lot of people, I've heard out there, soul winning,
they say, well, but believing is work.
Or I don't think faith and believe is the same thing.
I don't think that trusting Jesus
and believing on him is the same thing.
I actually heard that out last time I went preaching
with Pastor Oz at Anchor.
And so we ran into a person, they needed to hear this.
So here's what we showed them.
If you would turn to Romans 4 Romans 4 verse 5
Faith believe trust they're all synonyms. They all believe the same thing and there are not works
They have zero to do with works. It's all trust. And so in Romans 4 verse 5, it gives us,
it kind of links together those two words. It says,
but to him that worketh not, but
believeth on him, that is, that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
So what is his faith?
Believing on him.
What is believing on him his faith?
You can interchange those words and say but to him that worketh not
But put his faith on him that justify at the ungodly
Believing in him is counted for righteousness. You can interchange those words. They're synonyms
Here's a perfect example that believing on Jesus
It's your faith
Okay, if you go to Ephesians chapter 1 verse 13
Ephesians chapter 1 verse 13 this kind of shows us how trust and believing are
the same thing so we see here that that faith and believing are the same thing
and in verse 13 Ephesians 1 13 in whom ye also trusted
after ye heard the word of truth,
that gospel of your salvation,
in whom also after that ye believed,
ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise."
So it says here that we also trusted
after that ye believed.
So we could say the same thing here.
After ye believed,
are also ye believed after that ye trusted.
It's the exact same meaning.
They are called synonyms.
So faith, trust, believe, it all means the same thing.
So these are the verses that I've used out there
to get people to understand
that believing on the Lord Jesus Christ is not works.
Because in Romans 4-5 it says,
to him that worketh not, he does zero good works,
he never goes to church, he never prays,
he never cleans up his life, he never follows the commandments,
that's doing no work, okay?
But believeeth on him that justifies the ungodly,
his faith, what he believes, what he's trusting.
That's what saves him and
In this verse, it's the exact same thing in whom you also trusted after you had heard the word of truth
the gospel of the salvation of your salvation in whom also after he
believed he was filled with the Holy Spirit of promise so that can help you out there soul winning to kind of show people this and
Help them understand that it's not works that it's not different believing is not different than faith
believing is not different than trusting when it comes to salvation and so those are all synonyms
and it helps him understand what God is saying now why is going to heaven why is it called a gift
go let's just turn to it let's go to Romans 5 Romans 5
All throughout the Bible, and this is a big one here,
Romans, it calls going to heaven a gift. It's because a gift is free.
You don't have to work for it.
And so what I want to show you is that believing is free. You don't have to, it's not works.
Putting your faith in Jesus is free, it's not works.
You don't have to follow the commandments
to believe on Jesus.
You just have to put your trust in Him.
You don't have to be a good person to trust Jesus.
You just have to put your faith in Him.
You don't have to do the right thing
and do good works to go to heaven.
It's only believing, it's only your faith,
it's only what you're trusting that takes you to heaven
and it's not of works.
believing on the Lord Jesus Christ is free
because God says going to heaven is a gift
and a gift by definition is free.
And so we're in Romans five, let's look at verse 15.
In verse 15 it says,
but not as the offense,
so also is the free gift
for if through the offense of one,
many a be dead much more the grace of God
and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift, for the judgment was by one to condemnation,
And so it just says over and over and over, it's a gift.
Verse 17, for by one man's offense, death reigned by one,
much more they which received abundance of grace,
and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life
by one Jesus Christ.
So what is the gift?
Well, the gift is eternal life.
And so God is saying that going to heaven being saved is free, it's a gift, you don't have to work for it.
Believing on Jesus is not work, and putting your faith in Jesus is not work, it takes zero effort to do that.
And, you know, it sounds to me like, you know, God is trying to tell us that going to heaven is free.
It's a gift you never ever ever paid for a gift when you had your birthday or during Christmas
You just received it as a free gift. You didn't have to work it off later
You didn't have to put in installments and and and you know like a layaway. You remember the old days of layaway
I remember those that I don't know if they still have them or not
but you know you had to pay a little bit a little bit to get your stuff and so
Going to heaven is a free gift. Let's turn to
Let's turn to Ephesians 2.8 and 9, and I'll read Romans 6.23.
It says, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus
Christ our Lord.
So God is defining what the gift is.
It's eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
And it says there, for by grace, something that's free are you saved through faith, what you trust, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ and that not of yourselves, nothing you do, any works you do, get you to heaven, because it is the gift of God, it's totally free, it costs you nothing.
And then the next line, not of works,
lest any man should boast.
So God is saying here, it's a gift, it's a gift, it's a gift.
And he's telling us that because
putting your faith in Jesus,
believing on the Lord Jesus Christ,
trusting in Jesus to be saved is not works.
And some people will try to lie to you
and say that's the definition of believing on Jesus,
it's your works.
And so Eli, come here, I need your help.
All right, I'm glad you got up.
All right, thank you so much, Eli.
So Eli is going to help us with this understanding
that believing on Jesus,
putting your faith or trust in somebody is absolutely free.
It doesn't cost you anything
to put your faith into somebody.
Okay, so I'm gonna ask you to hold my phone.
All right.
I just put my faith in Eli to hold my phone.
I just trusted him to hold my phone.
I just believed on him to hold my phone.
Did I have to follow his commandments to do that?
No, I just put my faith in him.
Did I have to clean up my life
and be a good person to trust him?
No, because trust, believing,
putting your faith in somebody is absolutely free.
And we all choose to put our faith into something.
some people they put their faith in science they believe that that stuff is is true not the word
of god and and you know they can do that it's not good they're gonna die and go to hell if they
don't change that but here's the thing is i don't have to follow his rules i don't have to be a good
free that I put my faith in him it takes absolutely no works at all so thank you Eli
please go right ahead and so a lot of people will say that believing is the
works or that it takes effort it takes zero effort just like I just believed on
Eli I put my trust in him I put my faith in him zero effort zero works zero
cleaning up the life because going to heaven is free believing on Jesus is
Let's see
Yeah, it's a free gift
think of salvation like a sandwich, okay, and
The top slice of the bread of this sandwich
That's repent. Okay? That's repent. So you do have to repent to be saved.
You have to stop trusting in the wrong thing and trust in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
So up here we have repent in the sandwich. I should have bought a hamburger and had Eli bite into it, right?
So here we got repent at the top piece of the sandwich and in the middle...
Let's say just it's just got a piece of meat in the middle. All right, that's believe we got repent
Believe so we've got you have to change
The wrong thing that you're thinking about salvation and put all your faith and trust, you know repent
and change your mind about what it takes to go to heaven. But you have here believe that's the meat
and that's just that is believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's Acts 16. What must I do to be
saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. In Mark 15, repent and believe the gospel. So we got repent,
we got believe in the sandwich. We need one more piece to make the sandwich. So the bottom piece
All right so in in Romans 10 13 it says for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord
Thou shalt be saved." In Acts 16, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
The time is fulfilled in Mark 1.15, repent and believe the gospel. So we have repent,
we have believe as the meat, and then we have calling upon the name of the Lord is the bottom
slice of the sandwich. So this is salvation. You must repent, you must believe, and then you must
call upon the name of the Lord.
But here's the problem is these false teachers,
these people that teach damnable heresy,
they don't understand that when you repent,
when you believe on the Lord
and you call upon the name of the Lord,
that happens all instantaneously at one time.
So when you take a bite of this sandwich
and you're like, ah.
You took, you repented of believing the wrong thing.
You believed the right thing and you called upon the name of the Lord all at the same time.
It happens all at the same time.
So do you have to repent?
Yes you do.
You're just repenting of believing the wrong thing, believing the right thing.
Do you have to call upon the name of the Lord?
It says, it says in Romans 10, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord.
Thou shalt be saved."
So you have to call upon the name of the Lord to be saved.
If you know that you believe the wrong thing in your heart, and you know the right thing,
the gospel, and you never repent, which means you never believed, which means...
You didn't call upon the name of the Lord if you know those things and you never call upon the name of the Lord
You didn't take a bite of the sandwich
You must call upon the name of the Lord to be saved and so a lot of people teach that damnable heresy too that you don't
Have to call upon the name of the Lord to be saved when it literally says
If you call upon the name of the Lord, thou shalt be saved. It's part of the sandwich
You cannot be saved if you don't ask God for the gift. He's there. He says here it is my son paid for this gift
All you have to do is ask me for it and receive it as a free gift.
Not by repenting of your sins, but by changing your mind about the wrong thing and believing the right thing.
So, this sandwich, it all happens at one time.
If I do not change my mind about believing the wrong thing...
If I don't repent and I take a bite of that sandwich, I did not get safe.
I have to change my mind about the wrong thing.
So if I'm like a Hindu and somebody preaches a gospel to me and I say,
okay, yeah, I believe that I'm just going to add it to what I know.
I'm going to add it to Hinduism.
And you know, no, no, no, you have to change your mind about Hinduism and you have to believe the gospel.
That's what repent means. So they didn't repent. So if you don't repent and stop believing the wrong
thing, you don't get saved. But what's part of the sandwich? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
So you do have to change your mind about the wrong thing. You do have to believe the gospel.
Now all you have to do to take a bite of that sandwich is to call upon the name of the Lord.
So that's salvation in a sandwich and you know that makes it easier to understand that all these
three things happen all instantaneously. That's when somebody gets born into the kingdom of God.
That's when they get saved forever and it's not of works. It's not by repenting of sin. Now
What is repenting of sin?
Because it never says repent of your sins
to be saved in the Bible, never, not one time.
But repenting of sin, it is a biblical doctrine, okay?
And so what is repenting of sin
according to the King James Bible, okay?
Well, turn to Revelation two
and we're gonna look at verse 20.
Revelation 2 verse 20, it says,
Not withstanding, I have a few things against thee,
because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel,
which calleth herself a prophetess,
to teach and to seduce my servants
to commit fornication,
and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication,
and she repented not.
This is an example that God said,
hey, you need to repent of this sin,
you need to stop doing it.
So, repenting of sin just means you stop doing a sin.
That's a Bible definition of repent of sin.
So, the concept is in the Bible, it's there.
We should repent of sin, okay?
I'm not saying that you shouldn't.
All I'm saying is the Bible doesn't teach you have to repent of your sins to be saved.
You have to repent, change your mind about believing the wrong thing and believe the Gospel.
Turn to Jonah 310. We're going to head right back to Jonah.
It's such a good book for this.
Jonah 310.
Jonah 310, it says, God saw their works.
He saw their works, that they turned from their evil way.
What is a evil way?
What is a bad way?
It's sin.
So God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way,
and God repented of the evil that he had said
that he would do unto them, and he did it not.
So what moved God to repent or change his mind
about destroying Nineveh?
He saw their works which these are good works and we should do good works that they turn from their evil way
So Jonah goes into town and to Nineveh and he's like hey in 40 days. God's gonna destroy you and
The people and the king heard it and what did they do? They repented they put dust on their head and
They put on sackcloth and they fasted they didn't even let their animals eat
And they changed their mind about, hey, we need to stop our evil ways, we need to stop
our wickedness, and, you know, the fear of the Lord will do that.
And so he calls them turning from their evil way, repenting of that sin that they were
doing, works.
It's a good work to repent of sin.
We all should repent of sin every single day, and, you know, repenting of sin just means
So do I have to stop doing sin to be saved? No. It's a free gift. It's totally free. It's only by faith
So that is an explanation of when you do see in the Bible that God's asking us to repent of sin
Okay, it is in the Bible. We should repent of sin, but the phrase
Repent of your sins is never found in the Bible and it's never ever
like in this verse tied to salvation
So, I wanted to show you that. Now, let's see. Turn to second chronicles chapter 7.
Second chronicles chapter 7.
to verse 14 chapter 7 verse 14 and it says here if my people which are called by my name
shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways
Then while I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land
You know, I can see a false prophet taking this verse to be like see they turn from their wicked ways and
God forgave their sin and they went to heaven. No, no, that's not what this is talking about. Okay. It's like this
What do you have to do to be saved? We hardly know. It's just believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved
How long are we saved forever? The Bible says that when you get saved you become God's child
forever
So why where does repent of your sins? How does that?
How does that play into our lives?
Because we don't have to do it to be saved,
although you could take it out of context in this verse.
But here's how it works, is how it all fits together,
is that I believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved.
Then I'm his child forever, and I repent of my sins to have a good relationship with God the Father,
to be in good standing with him, because the Bible says that I can get to a place in my life
where I just despise the Word, I don't want to listen to it, and God won't hear my prayers.
And so I think of it like this, like...
When I would break one of my dad's rules, we would have a bad relationship.
If you have children, you understand this because when your kids don't listen and they break your rules, you are angry with them.
And they need to know that, you know, they can't just do whatever they want.
So if I have a bad relationship with my dad because I broke one of his rules
And how do I get back into a good relationship with my father?
I'm talking about my earthly father
If I break his rules and I and I do something bad and he's mad at me
How do I get on his good side? How do I get that relationship back? I go to him and I tell him I'm sorry I
Apologize I won't do that again
Please just forgive me dad. I I'm sorry
That is repenting of sin
Stopping sin not doing that sin anymore. So what happens? He forgives me and my relationship is whole again
And so that's an example of what repenting of your sins is for.
It helps heal our relationship with God.
It helps us get back into good standing with Him
so that we can do the right thing next time
and get those blessings from God that we want.
Because if I follow my parents' rules,
you know what they're going to do to me?
As a little kid, they're gonna take me out for ice cream. We're gonna go to the park
Maybe the next time that I light the rug on fire in the living room
I don't get spanked as hard because most of the time I'm pretty good, right?
And so, you know, repenting of sins it is valuable. It's something we should do
I'm not saying that repenting of your sins is not in the Bible. Yeah, it's found in the Bible
But it's for people that are already saved. It's not for people
that have not believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.
They can repent of all the sin they want,
but if they never believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
they die and go to hell.
And so, you know, repenting of your sins,
getting you back in that good relationship,
like with my father or, you know, just with Father God,
the spiritual application is very, very important.
And so that's just kind of an idea
of how it fits together, okay?
You repent of sins after you believe on Jesus after you're saved to get into a good relationship with God
now
Who believes this stupid
Damnedable heresy that you have to repent of your sins to be saved. I grew up in the costal
And so I'm gonna rip on these false teachers a little bit
Pentecostalism is one of the most emotional, self-centered, selfish, Bible-twisting, wicked
religions that are false out there. It's bad, and they are hard-headed. I was talking to
Pastor Gov about this just before the sermon, and he brought it up, and I was like, yeah,
I can testify to that, because I was around them, and it's bad. And hey, you guys can testify, too.
and you knock the door in their Pentecostal
and you're like, hey, are you 100% sure
you're going to heaven?
Yeah, I'm redeemed.
I've been, you know, I've been forgiven.
They get to throw out all these adjectives of what they are.
And it's just like, okay, I'm working with the Pentecostal
here because they have all these works that they believe in.
They got a lot of weird beliefs.
But one of them is they say that you must repent
of your sins to be saved.
So let's go to Acts 238.
They kind of hang their hat on Acts 238.
Acts 2.38, you know, it's easy to explain if you're saved and know the truth, it's hard if these false prophets are trying to explain it to you.
And so this can mess up a lot of people that want to get saved and they're taught this false doctrine.
This is what I was taught along with, you must be baptized and it's a joke.
Acts 2.38, then Peter said unto them, repent.
Now we already know what repent means.
It's not repent of your sins,
but you know what they do when they quote this verse?
Right there it says you got to repent of your sins
to be saved.
And I'm just like, hold on a second,
let me clean my glasses off.
It says repent.
It doesn't say repent of your sins,
but they've been so brainwashed.
Every time they see repent,
they just automatically think repent of your sins.
And then it says here,
and be baptized. Well, baptism is a work and the Bible specifically says that you do not
have to be baptized to be saved. It's literally just symbolism that you have already believed
on the Lord Jesus Christ. Every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remissions of sins
First, we kind of already debunked the repent part of this verse, it's just believing the
right thing and believing the gospel, turning from believing the wrong thing and believing
the gospel.
So head to Mark 16, 16, I love this verse, it can't get any more clear, and if somebody
This tells you you never, ever, ever have to be baptized by water to go to heaven.
It just doesn't work that way.
And Mark 16, 16, it says,
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.
All right, if you stop there, sounds pretty good.
Sounds like you got to believe and be baptized to be saved.
So I can see why the false prophets take this out of context,
but they never go to part B of the verse.
What does part B say?
It's literally the same verse, not the next verse.
It's contained in the verse that they're twisting.
It just blows my mind.
It says, he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved,
but he that believeth not shall be damned.
or that gets baptized not is damned? No. So what God is saying here is that you must believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved. Baptism is optional. But hey, I want you to get baptized,
but you don't have to be baptized to go to heaven. But you do have to believe or you're damned.
So why don't they explain that? Well, it's because they're false prophets. They're blinded.
They hate God, they hate the Word, and they're trying to send as many people to hell as possible,
so they take verses like this and twist it. If you read that...
And you've never read the Bible before.
You will never, ever, ever walk away from the Bible and say,
oh, you have to believe and be baptized to be safe.
Now, it's very obvious.
If you don't believe, you're damned.
But if you don't get baptized, you go to heaven.
Go back to Acts 2.38.
We'll keep debunking this stupid false doctrine
that they take out of this verse.
Then Peter said unto them, repent and be baptized.
So do you have to repent to be saved? Yes. Do you have to be baptized? No, it is a
commandment. Every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of
sins and you know one thing about this is it says to be baptized every one of you
in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins not to cleanse your
sins but for is also another word that you can interchange with because.
So if you read it like this, you know, it says and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus because
of the remission of sins
For the remission of sins. It's just like you can use for for because and think of it like this
You know some of us older people here
There used to be things on the TV called westerns
And I'm talking about long ago, and I loved them and you would see in the jail cell or the
Camera looking by there'd be
Wanted wanted wanted posters you know on the jail and you know what they would say wanted for murder
Are they saying, hey, I want somebody to murder someone.
Can you please apply for murder?
No, that's not what they're saying.
They're saying they're wanted by the police, by the sheriff
because of murder they have committed.
And so that's a perfect example of for
and because being interchanged here.
And it's all over the Bible.
It says for by grace.
because by grace are you saved through faith, okay?
What's another one for all have sinned,
because all have sinned.
And so if you look at it like this,
and I know the King James Bible
is written a little bit differently, but you know what?
It's not hard to read and when you break it down like this it makes total sense
And then it says and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost
Okay, so let's take a look at the gift of the Holy Ghost and let's go to 1st John
1st John chapter 5
And the verse I want to focus on is verse six and it says here
This is he that came by the water and the blood even Jesus Christ not by the water only but by
Water and blood and it is the spirit that bear the witness because the spirit is truth
So who is the witness? The Holy Spirit of God is the witness. Okay. Now, that's important
Let's skip down to verse 10. It says he that believeth on the Son of God
hath the witness in himself." So how do you receive the witness, the Holy Spirit,
believing on the Lord Jesus Christ? When you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Holy Spirit enters you. He is the witness. What is he witnessing? He is the witness to
God the Father saying, hey, this person believed on Jesus. When he dies, take him to heaven.
The Holy Spirit is with you as that
What's the what's the term is like the in real estate?
The earnest money, the Holy Spirit is like, thank you.
Like Pastor Anderson said, get that person a prize.
And so a Holy Spirit is like the earnest money.
It's saying, hey, when you put earnest money down
to buy a house, you're just saying, hey,
I'm gonna buy this house, I'm serious about it.
And I am going to buy that house.
And the Holy Spirit is the same way.
Holy Spirit is just kind of like the earnest money.
It's just he's like inside of us saying,
hey, this person has believed on Jesus.
He's going to heaven whenever he dies.
And so that's very important.
All right, back to Acts 238.
Okay, back to Acts 238.
So what does it say there?
Then Peter said under them,
and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Okay, you're saved.
And then after that, be baptized in the name,
every one of you in the name of Jesus
because your sins are remitted
and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Well, when do you receive the gift of the Holy Ghost?
The moment you believe.
When repent happens remember repent believe calling upon in the name of the Lord happens all at the same time
So they take this this verse out of context and say he see here you have to repent of your sins
Well, it doesn't say that you have to be baptized. No, it does. No
It's not what it says here because the scripture can't be broken. It can't say in Mark 16 16
You don't have to be baptized to go to heaven. You just have to believe and then here it says
Oh, I guess you do have to be baptized. No
They're lying, they have no clue, they're blind.
And when do you receive the Holy Ghost?
When you believe.
You know what they call receiving the Holy Ghost?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaking in tongues and they flop around
and it's like, you don't have the Holy Ghost,
you got the spirit of air,
you're like the guy at the tomb that's devil possessed.
And it's like, if you're acting like that,
I'm thinking, you know, somebody's not in the driver's seat.
Like who?
who is talking for you, right? And so that's just that false, wicked doctrine of repenting
of your sins to be saved. And that's easily debunked. If you have somebody that is saved,
knows the truth, can explain this to somebody out soul winning. And
I'm gonna wrap it up with this.
Who is another, who else believes this wicked,
false heresy, this damnedable heresy,
repent of your sins to be saved?
Well, this one hits a little closer to home in a sense,
but the Southern Baptist Convention,
I pulled this off of sbc.net.
Under Item 4, Salvation, this is the quote,
Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward God.
So the Southern Baptist Convention says you must repent of sin to be saved.
How has this happened?
Please, just take Baptist off of your name.
That is not what Baptists believe.
Like the whole point that people call themselves Baptists is because Baptists believe the foundational
ideas in the Bible about salvation that it's faith alone, once saved, always saved.
That's the moniker of a Baptist.
So the Southern Baptist Convention, what's happened is they've gotten hijacked and they've gotten infiltrated and at the top of that is
a bunch of God-hating reprobates making this doctrine and here's the problem with being in a convention of other churches and
not being
Independent is that their retirement is tied together
Everything that they preach if they preach something different than what the bastard convention says then they can't preach it
Even if it's the truth in the Bible like I don't have to repent of my sins to be saved if they preach that
They're gone
And if they're at the end of their retirement, they don't get their retirement.
You know, it's a bad thing.
That's why we're independent fundamental Baptists, because we can just preach the word of God,
we can do what the Bible says, and we don't have somebody holding over our head.
And so, how does things get corrupt?
It's always a concentration of power to a few people at the top.
And that's what this bastard convention is.
just reprobate God haters that are taking people to hell and I wish they would take Baptist off
of their name and call them what they really are a bunch of God haters God hater church that's what
they should call them so another example and I'm gonna close with this of reprobates changing the
word of God people that hate God is I just want to give you this one verse from the NLT
It says, Peter replied, each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God and be baptized
in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, then you will receive the gift
of the Holy Spirit.
Doesn't that sound a lot like the Southern Baptist Convention when it says, repentance
is a genuine turning from sin towards God.
So, it's the same spirit. The NLT is a wicked, false Bible. It is not from God.
It's obvious, and it literally says you must repent of your sins.
So, I can see why people get mixed up on this repent of your sins crap.
It's garbage because there's an actual so-called Bible out there that really says it.
And if you don't know and you pick up a Bible and read that and you will think, okay,
I do have to repent of my sins. I'm going to stop drinking tomorrow so I can go to heaven,
and they're going to die and go to hell. Well, you know what? This is linked up to
the Southern Baptist Convention, and I just wish they would just stop existing.
Satan knows. Satan knows he cannot stop the Word of God. He cannot stop it. So
what does he do? He makes all these versions that that are false doctrines
that are in them. They're not the correct Word of God. They have nothing to do with
the truth. And it's almost like Joe when God said, hey,
Uh, Satan, what have you been doing?
He's like walking to and fro of the earth, you know,
looking to see who he can devour, right?
And he's like, have you considered my servant, Job?
It's like, thanks God, right?
But, you know, hey, Job was a righteous man,
and so he basically said to Job, he said, look,
or he said to Satan, he said, look,
you do whatever you want, you spare his life.
You can do whatever you want and I feel like God has said that same exact thing to Satan about the King James Bible
You do whatever you want. You don't touch the King James Bible. It's off limits
And so what does Satan do? He's like, okay, I'm going to create all these false versions so I can vex people.
I can confuse people. I can get them off the right path and maybe damn them to hell.
Or if they are saved using these false versions, it vexes their mind. It slows down their spiritual growth.
It confuses them and somebody has to go in there and untangle all that garbage before they can serve God with their life even better.
The NLT is a lie, it's wicked as hell, it's full of damnable heresies, and the false doctrine
of repent of your sins to be saved is a damnable heresy, and it'll take people straight to hell,
and we need to explain this to people the best that we can when we're out there preaching the gospel.
Obviously, people only get saved by hearing the gospel, and so sometimes you do have to untangle
and go through, you know, maybe the reprobate doctrine. This may be one of them. So I hope this
helps you out. Let's pray.
Father God in heaven, thank you so much for your word,
that we can rely on the King James Bible.
It's the truth.
It helps us not get caught up in these damnable heresies,
like repent of your sins to be saved.
It helps us do the right thing if we humble our heart
and we have a tender heart towards the truth,
the word of God.
And I just wanna thank you so much for a church like this,
that is King James only,
that believes faith alone,
always saved. This is a good church. Thank you so much God and thank you for all of your blessings
and Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen. Turning your hymnals to our last song, song 135.
Song 135 Jesus what a friend for sinners